The Indian court deciding whether to extradite a man convicted over a fatal hit-and-run in Australia seven years ago has postponed the case for two months.

Puneet Puneet was driving a car which crashed, killing one man and badly injuring another in Melbourne in 2008.

Police said the 26-year-old was drunk and driving at 148 kilometres an hour when he hit and killed 19-year-old Queensland student Dean Hofstee, and seriously injured 20-year-old Clancy Coker in Southbank.

As he awaited sentencing in February 2009 for culpable driving causing death and negligently causing injury, Puneet Puneet used a friend's passport to flee back to his native India.